Railway-tie and fastener.



No. 816,921. T PATENTED APR. s, 1906.

J. P. LANCASTER;

RAILWAY TIE AND FASTENER. APPLICATION rum) JULY 28. 1905.

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WITH ST r orrion JOHN P. LANCASTER. OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

HAILWAY TlE AND FASTENER- Specification of Letters Patent.

llr'atented April 3, 1906.

Application filed July 28,1905. Serial No. 271,632.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. LANCASTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties and Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in railways, more especially stringers or ti es and fastenings therefor.

It has for its object to provide for the ready securing or clamping in place of the rails upon the ties or sleepers and to effect this in a simple, economic, and effective manner; also, to read] 1 y accommodate the clamping or retaining means to any variations in the thickness or dimensions of the parts, especi ally the rail flange or base.

Said invention consists of certain structural features, substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and specifically pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a broken, partly sectioned and partly unscctioned, view thereof produced transversely to the road-bed. Fig. 2 is a broken detailed plan view thereof with the rail-secti on removed, together with the railflange clamp or securing means and adjunctive parts or instrumentalities in the form of tapered retaining pins or bolts disposed adjacently thereto. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of a rail-flange clamp or securing member.

In carrying out my invention I employ stringers or sleepers 1 for the support of the rail-sections 2, preferably of the general outline shown, each having upper or overhanging or inturned portions or arms, intermediately of which and the base or main portion of the stringer are suitably secured, as by screws or bolts, bracing or strengthening 1101- low ieces 3. These latter may be tamped or filed in with earth, or pieces or blocks of wood adapted to practically fill the same may be placed therein. Each of these over hanging or inward-extcnded arms or portions 1 has formed therewith a downward-facing arched or upward-curved formation or recess 4., arranged well outward near the upwardextended surface or end thereof. These arched or curved formations or recesses 4 are each provided with a slot 45* about centrally thereof, said slots extending each way some distance beyond said formations or recesses for a purpose presently seen.

Separate clamps or fastenings 5 for the rail-sections are herein. employed, each being in general outline the inverse of a section or segment of a stringer, which would be produced by removing a portion of the latter along longitudinal lines through the arched formation'or recess thereof. In other words, each clamp or fastening is an inverted ap proximately U-shaped piece or bar with its downward curved or arcuate portion 5 adapted to depend through a slot 4, centrally or transversely cleaving the wall of a recess or formation 4. The arms 5 5 of said clamps or fastenings are adapted to rest or bear upon the upper inturned arms or portions of the stringers and upon the baseflanges of the rail-sections, respectively, as clearly shown, particularly by Fig. 1, for the purpose aforesaid. The arms 5 of the clamps 5 are somewhat the longer and are reduced slightly upon their lower surfaces along taporing lines, as at 5, to cause them to 0011- form to and snugly fit upon the upper sloping surfaces of the rail flanges or bases, the advantages of which are apparent.

Pins or bolts 6, tapering longitudinally, are adapted to be inserted or'driven in between the upper portions or arms 1 of the stringers 1 and the clamps or fastenings 5, said pins or bolts entering and passing through the eyes or openings formed by the arcuate portions 4 of the former and the corresponding portions 5 of the latter conjointly for effectively securing or holding said clamps in place. It will be noted that by reason of the tapering outline of these pins or bolts they are adapted to permit the clamps where they engage the rail-flanges to conform to any inequality or irregularity between the latter and the clamps, as would not otherwise be the case,

which is apparent. The head ends of the pins or bolts are angular, as shown, in order to permit suitably gripping the same, as when turning said pins or bolts.

I claim- 1. A railway tie or stringer having, in upper inward-extending portions or arms thereof, d0wnward-facing recesses, rail-flange-securing clamps effective with the latter to receive fastenings for holding said clamps in place.

2. A railway tie or stringer having, in upper inward-extended portions or arms thereof, downward facing arcuate formations, rail-flange-securing clamps effective with the latter to receive fastening bolts or pins for securing said clamps in place.

3. A railway tie or stringer having, in upper inward-extended portions or arms there of, downward facing arcuate formations, rail-flangesecuring clamps of practically U form depending through slots cleaving the walls of said arcuate formations, and fastening means effective with the aforesaid parts I to retain said clamps in place.

4. A railway tie or stringer having, in upper inward-extended portions or arms thereof, downward-facing arcuate formations,with slots extending transversely therethrough, rail-flange-holding clamps of practically U form, with their curved portions depending through said slots, and fastening bolts or pins, effective for use in connection with the aforesaid parts, for holding the clamps in place.

5. A railway tie or stringer having, in upper inward-extended portions or arms thereof, downward-presented arcuate formations, rail-flange-securing clamps, of practically U form with their curved portions depending through slots cleaving the walls of said formations, and tapering fastening pins or bolts effective with the aforesaid parts to retain the clamps in place.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. JOHN P. LANCASTER. Witnesses:

H. T. MOKEEVER, BENNETT S. JoNEs. 

